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Manuscript Name / Shelf Mark / Project Number Approximate Date Language The main body text Link to Digitized Manuscript
Vat. sir. 107 700 CE Syriac

See entry in Assemani

  • Binding
  • f. 1r-7v John, Bishop of Constantinople, Memra on that which is said by the prophet Jeremiah: "Lord, his way is not in the hand of man."
  • f. 7v-14v John, Bishop of Constantinople, On those who receive the seal of baptism
  • f. 15r-20v John, Bishop of Constantinople, Memra on the same subject
  • f. 20v-28v John, Bishop of Constantinople, On that which the apostle said: "A man has his wife through fornication."
  • f. 28v-32v John, Bishop of Constantinople, Memra on "If your brother sins against you, deal with it between you and him."
  • f. 32v-54v [Contents unclear]
  • f. 54v-56r John, Bishop of Constantinople, Description of the passion of our Lord
  • f. 56v-59r Jacob of Sarug, Letter to Stephen Bar-Sudayli
  • f. 59r-62v Philoxenus, Bishop of Hierapolis, Letter to Abraham on Stephen Bar-Sudali
  • f. 63r-64r St. Cyril, Letter to Rabbula the bishop
  • f. 64r St. Cyril, fragments of a letter, written in the synod of the Ephesian fathers to Nestorius
  • f. 64v-65r Letter of Paphnut to Moses Aghelesem/Aglaya
  • f. 65r-66r Moses Aghelensis, response to the letter of Paphnut
  • f. 66r-70v St. Cyril the Patriarch of Alexandria, On Creation Glaphyrorum
  • f. 71r-71v Apostolic canons
  • f. 71v-72r Apostolic constitution by Hippolytus
  • f. 72r-72v On the first fruits and tithing
  • f. 72v-76v Maxims of Paul the apostle
  • f. 76v-79v Ecclesiastical constitutions
  • f. 80r-113v Dionysius the Areopagite, Celestial hierarchy, Ecclesiastical hierarchy, on divine names, mysstical theology, with an anonymous Syriac commentary
  • f. 114r-134v Peter of Callinicum, Against Damian
  • Binding

Vat. sir. 353 Unknown Syriac

Catalog entry in Assemani

  • Nomocanon of the Syriac Church of Antioch
    • John Scholasticus
    • Apostolic Canons
    • Constitutions of Hippolytus
    • Canons of Nicaea
    • Council of Ancyra
    • Council of Neocaesarea
    • Synod of Gangra
    • Synod of Antioch
    • Synod of Laodicea
    • Council of Constantinople
    • Synod of Ephesus
    • Chalcedon
    • Timothy of Alexandria, Questions and responses
    • Various collections of Nomocanons

Harvard Ms Syr 130 1,888 CE Syriac

Catalog entry

  • ff. 1r/v Table of contents
  • ff. 2r Cross design
  • Dionysius bar Ṣalibi​
    • ff. 2v-23v Commentaries on Genesis
    • ff. 23v-37r Exodus
    • ff. 37r-45v Leviticus
    • ff. 45v-57r Numbers
    • ff. 57r-67r Deuteronomy
    • ff. 67v-79v Job
    • ff. 79v-81v Joshua
    • ff. 81v-84r Judges
    • ff. 84v-88r Samuel
    • ff. 88v-95r Kings
    • ff. 95r-103r-166r Psalms (introduction in 32 chapters by Moses bar Kepha, 95r-103r; commentary 103r-166r)
    • ff. 166v-179v Proverbs
    • ff. 179v-193r Ecclesiastes
    • ff. 193r-201r Song of Songs
    • ff. 201r/v A section on chronology entitled ʻAl qadimut nbiye ḥad men ḥabreh
    • ff. 201v-234r Isaiah
    • ff. 234v-250r Jeremiah
    • ff. 250r-271v Ezekiel
    • ff. 272r-282v Daniel
    • ff. 282v-286r Hippolytus on Susanna
    • ff. 286r-309r Twelve Prophets
    • ff. 309r-315v Bar Asira
    • ff. 315v-316v Colophons
    • ff. 316v Prayer
    • ff. 317r-318v Ephrem on Malachi (317r-v) and Joel (317v-318v)

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